[Reader-list] "Muslim Devotional Art in India" - a new book

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You are cordially invited to
An Evening of Visual Presentation and Book Reading on

Muslim Devotional Art in India

by Yousuf Saeed
Chaired by Prof. Patricia Uberoi

12 December 2011, at 6:30 pm, Monday
New Conference Block, Seminar Hall 2 & 3
India International Centre
Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi, India

India’s popular Islamic art of calendars and posters, depicting images
of Mecca, Medina, local Sufi shrines and Quranic calligraphy, has so
far been neglected as part of the popular ephemera of street culture.
But with the recent and growing interest in documenting and
interpreting the popular print culture of India, some scholars like
Yousuf Saeed have been collecting and writing about these colourful
images of devotion and syncretic culture. Such images can be seen as
symbols of India’s pluralistic culture since their artists, publishers
and even users are not necessarily all Muslim. Moreover, such images
also contain visual elements from other religions which are ready
accepted by their users.

We invite you to an evening of visual presentations and book readings
by Yousuf Saeed from his new work “Muslim Devotional Art in India”
(Routledge, New Delhi, 2012). The presentation will be followed by
comments and a discussion with audience, conducted by the well-known
scholar Patricia Oberoi, who herself has been an avid collector and
scholar of India’s popular visual culture.

Yousuf Saeed, a Delhi-based independent filmmaker and researcher, is
also the director of Tasveer Ghar, a digital archive of India’s
popular visual culture. See www.tasveerghar.net

For more details about the book, see: www.muslimdevotionalart.in
Or http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415678384/

Entry for this event is free. For details about the venue, see
http://www.iicdelhi.nic.in

India International Centre
40, Max Mueller Marg,
New Delhi - 110003
Tel.: 011-24619431  011-24619431

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be interested in. thanks